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With the addition of 25 new multifamily affordable housing properties involving nearly 2,000 units, ACE is opening the second phase of its energy efficiency and water conservation project with Mercy Housing. As a result, ACE has now funded 37 Mercy Housing properties. The 12-property Phase 1 construction was completed in […]

Social innovation rarely comes easily. Particularly when you’re searching for a novel solution to a complex challenge. It can be a journey fraught with unexpected dead ends, dashed hopes and a high probability of failure. This is the landscape that faces many would-be innovators. The following describes how four […]

By Eden Greenberger, Summer Associate The recent California wildfires serve as a stark reminder of the dangerous effects of climate change on our environment. Due to climate change, our warming ocean are already rising. We’re experiencing all-time high summer temperatures. And you can now begin to see the wildfire dominos […]

By Dan Greenberger, Chief Innovation Officer On April 22, 1970, our environment officially received its own day. I was a high school senior in a small town in the middle of Nebraska. At that time and place, climate change wasn’t a thing yet. From my Great Plains vantage point, hurricanes […]

Chicago, IL – Affordable Community Energy Services Company (ACE) recently received loan approval from Reinvestment Fund to perform comprehensive energy efficiency and water conservation projects for Mercy Housing in California, the nation’s largest nonprofit owner of low-income housing. “This loan is groundbreaking in a number of ways,” explains Jeff Greenberger, […]

Affordable Community Energy Services Company has become a new member of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Better Buildings Residential Network, which connects energy efficiency programs and partners to share best practices and learn from one another to increase the number of homes that are energy efficient. The Better […]

It’s difficult to ignore the seismic shift in policies coming out of Washington—not the least of which are planned cuts in federal support for low-income populations and for the environment. How will the administration’s policy shifts and program cuts affect these two critical social issues, and what does it […]

CHICAGO, Oct. 30 – Bringing broad-based energy-efficiency, water conservation and renewable energy improvements to existing multifamily low-income housing is a daunting task. While state and utility incentives help in many cases, finding capital to pay the remaining costs has proven to be extremely difficult. Finding a solution to this challenge […]

ACE is on a mission to bring broad-based sustainability to low-income housing communities. We hope by doing so that we can: Keep affordable housing affordable Fight climate change AND Generate returns for our investors And now, we are inviting YOU and other social investors to be part of this cause! […]